Category: management

Excerpts/paraphrasing from the book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful” by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter. When we do what we have to do, we are compliant. When we do have we want to do, we…

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An SRE team deals with various domains of influence. I am outlining some of the ones that I find to be the most prelevant, in no particular order. Sometimes an SRE organization may be known as the ‘no’ organization. This is really unfortunate. I…

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Working in technology, I have had to deal with my fair share of prima donna engineers. A few characteristic that such engineers share include high technical skill set, low social skills, egotistical, argumentative, arrogant, stubborn, impatent, and overall difficult to work with. Some companies…

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When building a new team, a number of factors have to be taken into account. These can be summarized in a visual called a ‘team canvas’ , as seen below. Why was the team formed? Define the purpose of the team in the center. List…

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Introduction Have been on both sides of a site reliability engineer interview, I have come to realize that interviewing is as much art as it is science. Although there are companies which have tried to make interviewing a numbers game, and to abstract out…

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I am a Linux Site Reliability Engineering leader (SRE), with a focus on cloud platforms, virtualization, automation, and a wide range of other Unix infrastructure tools. You can reach me at alicsyed@gmail.com.